The temperature on April 14, 1909 was between 4.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Day of marriage May 11, 1935
The temperature on May 11, 1935 was between 7.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
May 24 » The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
May 25 » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
July 5 » The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
November 22 » The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
Day of death January 6, 1988
The temperature on January 6, 1988 was between 7.2 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 14.0 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
August 10 » Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
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